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| South Sudan rivals talk peace while killing civilians - U.N. | |  By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - South Sudan's warring government and opposition are killing, abducting, and displacing civilians and destroying property despite conciliatory rhetoric by both sides, the United Nations said on Friday. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is due to travel to South Sudan's capital Juba next Thursday to meet with President Salva Kiir. A political dispute between Kiir and his former deputy Riek Machar two years ago sparked a civil war and renewed hostilities between Kiir's Dinka and Machar's Nuer people.
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| Kenya seeks two more months to meet anti-doping demands | |  By George Obulutsa NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya wants two more months to show the global anti-doping agency it has cleaned up its athletics, hoping to avoid the risk of being barred from this year's Olympic Games, its sports minister said on Friday. Kenya, a world beater in long-distance running, missed a World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) deadline last week to implement new regulations in a country where some 40 athletes have been banned for doping in the last three years. Sports Minister Hassan Wario said he was confident WADA would agree a two-month extension to enable Kenya to pass legislation and launch a fully operational anti-doping agency.
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| Vatican to Trump: It's not 'personal,' it's religion | |  By Emily Flitter MYRTLE BEACH, South Carolina (Reuters) - The Vatican on Friday tried to tamp down a firestorm ignited by Pope Francis' comments assailing Donald Trump's views on U.S. immigration as "not Christian", assuring the Republican presidential front-runner that it was not a personal attack or attempt to influence the U.S. campaign. Francis told reporters during a conversation on his flight home from Mexico on Thursday, "A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian." Trump has said if elected president, he would build a wall along the U.S.-Mexican border to keep immigrants from illegally entering the United States. Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi told Vatican Radio the pope's comments, in response to a reporter's question on Trump, were an affirmation of his longstanding belief that migrants should be helped and not shut out.
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| Morocco arrests 10 suspected IS militants, including Frenchman | | | By Zakia Abdennebi SALE, Morocco (Reuters) - Moroccan authorities said on Friday they had arrested 10 suspected militants linked to the Islamic State, including a French citizen, and seized weapons and bomb-making materials in raids on their hideouts. The cell is the latest in a series of radical groups Morocco says it has uncovered. Thursday's raids took place at locations the group used in the southern city of Essaouira and the central cities of Meknes and Sidi Kacem, authorities said. |
| Egypt's Sisi tells interior minister to crack down on abuses by police | |  By Ali Abdelaty CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi told the interior minister on Friday to crack down on police abuse and to submit proposals to parliament to achieve this goal, the presidency said, as anger mounts over alleged police brutality. Last week, thousands of doctors held a rare protest against police they say beat two doctors at a Cairo hospital for refusing to falsify medical records. Sisi told Interior Minister Magdi Abdel Ghaffar tackle abuses and propose any necessary amendments to laws within 15 days, the presidency said in a statement.
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| Afghan teen charged with raping worker at Belgian asylum centre | | | A teenage Afghan immigrant has been charged with raping a female worker at an asylum seekers' centre in Belgium, authorities said, prompting outrage from anti-immigrant politicians. The 16-year-old Afghan asylum seeker followed a worker from a catering firm into the basement and raped her at the centre in Menen, near the French border, prosecutors said. A spokeswoman for the Red Cross said it was the first time in 25 years such an alleged incident had occurred at one of the organisation's asylum seeker centres in the country. |
| Texas judge set to send 'affluenza' teen's case to adult system | |  By Marice Richter FORT WORTH, Texas (Reuters) - A Fort Worth juvenile judge is expected to decide on Friday to transfer the case of America's so-called "affluenza" teen to the adult court system, where the 18-year-old could become eligible for release on bond. Tarrant County prosecutors and attorneys for Ethan Couch have said they expect Judge Tim Menikos to transfer probation supervision to adult court for his conviction in juvenile court for killing four people while driving drunk in 2013. A psychologist testifying on Couch's behalf said he was so spoiled that he could not tell right from wrong, describing him as being afflicted with "affluenza." Couch received probation for causing the deaths, spurring outrage, while the affluenza defense was widely ridiculed.
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| Pope's comments on Trump not a personal attack -papal spokesman | |  Pope Francis's suggestion that Donald Trump was "not Christian" because of his views on immigration was not a personal attack on the U.S. Republican presidential candidate, Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi said on Friday. Lombardi told Vatican Radio that the pope's comments, made to reporters during a flight back from Mexico in response to a specific question on Trump, were simply an affirmation of his long-standing belief that migrants should be helped rather than shut off behind walls. "In no way was this a personal attack, nor an indication of how to vote," Lombardi said.
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| Swiss investigating alleged secret 1970 PLO deal | | | By John Miller ZURICH (Reuters) - Switzerland is looking into whether a former government minister struck a secret deal offering diplomatic assistance to the Palestine Liberation Organization in 1970 in exchange for the Arab group stopping attacks on Swiss targets. The allegation emerged this year in a book, "Swiss Terror Years," which has also raised questions whether a pact between the PLO and Switzerland interfered with an investigation into a bomb attack on a Swissair plane in 1970 that killed 47 people. The foreign ministry said on Friday that a task force including police, justice and military officials would try to answer not only whether neutral Switzerland cut the deal with the PLO in September 1970, but whether the investigation into the Swissair bombing had been thorough. |
| Egypt says it will not protect policemen who break the law as tensions mount | | | Egypt's Interior Ministry said on Friday that any policeman who violates the law will be prosecuted, one day after an officer shot dead a man in the street, provoking the latest outburst of anger over alleged police brutality in the country. Interior Ministry spokesman Major General Abu Bakr Abdel Karim was quoted by the state news agency as saying policemen are not shielded from the law. Hundreds of protesters gathered in front of the Cairo security directorate on Thursday night after the man was killed. |
| Kidnapped Red Cross staff released in Afghanistan | | | Five Red Cross staff members, kidnapped by a group of armed men in the central Afghan province of Ghazni on Tuesday, were released unharmed, the aid group said on Friday. "We are immensely relieved to know our five colleagues are free and in good health," Jean-Nicolas Marti, head of the International Committee of the Red Cross delegation in Kabul said in a statement posted on the group's Facebook page. "We want to thank all involved for the swift resolution of the crisis." The Red Cross suspended its operations in Ghazni following the abduction of the staff members. |
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